WordPress enjoys great popularity and draw more attention of people who want to gain unauthorized access. As with any open-source software developers and attackers alike can view the code. The risk of spam links, the destruction of the blog and other attacks is therefore very high. But this article shows the possibilities to secure WordPress in many ways.

In the past we have already informed you a little bit about the new features of the upcoming 2.9 version of WordPress - the development does not stop and the next version has many minor changes. Improvements in security, administration.

WordPress 2.9 will have the possibility to update all your Plugins, which have an update available, in one step.
That makes maintenance work with customer's and on your own blog more simple and faster. As a little insight, here is a screenshot of the current beta.

WordPress makes it pretty easy to upload picture on posts and pages. Thereby are various data stored, which can be used.
Again and again, you can read tutorials on how to bring photos to posts, normally this is a solution via the custom fields. But there is a different and simpler solution, I think. The maintenance of custom fields is not always necessary.
Therefore, I would like to show some solutions that are, in my opinion, much better and can be expanded in many ways.

In WordPress 2.9, there will be the ability to add an image to a post, as it's been known of magazine themes. The image need not be insert into the post. With the new feature the_post_image() you can use the new feature and thus control where to display.Continue reading …